Williams v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

*628DALTON, J.

This is^an action for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff was a passenger in one of defendant’s streetcars. She fell and sustained fractures of the bones of her right arm and wrist as the streetcar moved along East Hodiamont Avenue in the city of St. Louis. The cause was submitted to a jury under the res ipsa loquitur doctrine. Yerdict and.judgment were for plaintiff for $4950.00 and defendant took an appeal to the St. Louis Court of Appeals. That court ordered the judgment reversed and the cause remanded on the ground that the doctrine of - res ipsa loquitur was not applicable…